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+### Searching
+
+Search current directory and subdirectories
+
+fd "search term"
+
+Find all PDFs
+
+fd -e pdf
+
+Find files by name
+
+fd -g "\*.txt"
+
+Search file contents for “config”
+
+rg "config"
+
+#### Reading & Converting Files (with pandoc)
+
+Convert PDF to text
+
+pdftotext document.pdf
+
+# or via pandoc
+
+pandoc document.pdf -t plain -o document.txt
+
+Convert Word document to text
+
+pandoc document.docx -t plain -o document.txt
+
+Convert RTF or HTML to text
+
+pandoc document.rtf -t plain -o document.txt
+pandoc document.html -t plain -o document.txt
+
+Batch convert all PDFs to text
+
+for f in \*.pdf; do pdftotext "$f" "${f%.pdf}.txt"; done
+
+#### Summary
+
+• fd replaces mdfind for fast file search.
+• rg (ripgrep) replaces Spotlight content search.
+• pandoc + pdftotext replace textutil for format conversion.